Category: Commentary
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Dear Mr. Brooks
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David Brooks is a columnist for the New York Times.I answered his request in his column, “The Life Report.” I am quoting from his opening remarks. “If you are over 70, I’d like to ask for a gift. I’d like you to write a brief report on your life so…
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Superannuated, My Ass
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According to my dictionary, it is to be obsolete, old-fashioned or outdated. None of this applies to me and yet it does. Because this particular culture says so. This culture has an implicit statement to make about age and purpose. There are manifest and subtle latent cut-offs for people. In fact…
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Tell It All The Tyranny of Mormonism, Mrs. T.B.H. Stenhouse
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Recently I read Fawn Brodie’s biography of the charismatic charlatan and all around creep, Joseph Smith, founder of the cult religion, Mormonism. The book came out in the early seventies and is a bit stodgy; however, it is backed up with solid historical matter, for Brodie was a historian of some…
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Query Letter for The i Tetralogy (Updated)
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Dear Editor: I am querying you as to a possible review of The i Tetralogy. The i Tetralogy is a fictionalized account of the devastating effects of the Holocaust. The culmination of four decades of reflection and introspection, my therapeutic work with Holocaust survivors, and my own experience as an…